how to feel always happy without drugs?

one day i was walking,suddenly i felt so happy without any reason.at that time nothing could have make me feel down. i was so positive at that time almost nothing seemed to matter.like i was more than human.bleak future didn't hinder me a bit.it was like a godGod's blessings. i want to know why i felt that way and how to feel it again?may be forevermore.

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one day i was walking,suddenly i felt so happy without any reason.at that time nothing could have make me feel down. i was so positive at that time almost nothing seemed to matter.like i was more than human.bleak future didn't hinder me a bit.it was like a godGod's blessings. i want to know why i felt that way and how to feel it again?may be forevermore.

I think it is human nature (philosophically, as well as chemically) to experience a sufficient duration of happiness that it becomes the new norm, and you go back to base level where there continues to be some unhappiness.

Humans kind of need challenges, and challenges require not getting what you want.
Consider any arbitrary measure of some resource that might bring happiness: wealth, the perfect job, fulfilling your desire to have a late family, etc.

If I suddenly had a lot more money, I'd certainly be happy, but it's not as if my life, from that point on, would be utterly carefree. (As witnessed by the fact that I do have a lot more discretionary income that I did in my 20s or 30s, but my happiness hasn't gone off the charts.) Happiness is an internal thing.

This is backed up by examining the chemical nature of happiness in the brain: dopamine and seratonin. If one is somehow, externally provided with things that male one happy, the hormone levels will adjust to that new level, and treat it as the new baseline (essentially becoming desensitized to rising levels of hormones).

one day i was walking,suddenly i felt so happy without any reason.at that time nothing could have make me feel down. i was so positive at that time almost nothing seemed to matter.like i was more than human.bleak future didn't hinder me a bit.it was like a godGod's blessings. i want to know why i felt that way and how to feel it again?may be forevermore.

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I get this. The occasional wave of wellness. The feeling that all is right with the world. For me, it usually occurs when outdoors on a beautiful day in nature.

And, being an atheist, I don't need to attribute it to any higher power; just the happiness to be alive, in good health, and free to pursue my desires.

I think it is human nature (philosophically, as well as chemically) to experience a sufficient duration of happiness that it becomes the new norm, and you go back to base level where there continues to be some unhappiness.

Humans kind of need challenges, and challenges require not getting what you want.
Consider any arbitrary measure of some resource that might bring happiness: wealth, the perfect job, fulfilling your desire to have a late family, etc.

If I suddenly had a lot more money, I'd certainly be happy, but it's not as if my life, from that point on, would be utterly carefree. (As witnessed by the fact that I do have a lot more discretionary income that I did in my 20s or 30s, but my happiness hasn't gone off the charts.) Happiness is an internal thing.

This is backed up by examining the chemical nature of happiness in the brain: dopamine and seratonin. If one is somehow, externally provided with things that male one happy, the hormone levels will adjust to that new level, and treat it as the new baseline (essentially becoming desensitized to rising levels of hormones).

I think it is human nature (philosophically, as well as chemically) to experience a sufficient duration of happiness that it becomes the new norm, and you go back to base level where there continues to be some unhappiness.

Humans kind of need challenges, and challenges require not getting what you want.
Consider any arbitrary measure of some resource that might bring happiness: wealth, the perfect job, fulfilling your desire to have a late family, etc.

If I suddenly had a lot more money, I'd certainly be happy, but it's not as if my life, from that point on, would be utterly carefree. (As witnessed by the fact that I do have a lot more discretionary income that I did in my 20s or 30s, but my happiness hasn't gone off the charts.) Happiness is an internal thing.

This is backed up by examining the chemical nature of happiness in the brain: dopamine and seratonin. If one is somehow, externally provided with things that male one happy, the hormone levels will adjust to that new level, and treat it as the new baseline (essentially becoming desensitized to rising levels of hormones).

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I once filled in a psychological questionnaire and it turned out I (thought I ) wastoohappy (unbelievably so) and so this was diagnosed as a problem (denial).

I loved the "The Prophet" book that has a section on happiness where it says that the peaks of your happiness are the "flip side" to your sorrows.